River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

During the fiscal year just ended the
principal of the bonded debt of the United
States decreased S127, 9l1, O3O and the amount
of the accrued but unpaid interest on such
debt decreased S50s. 81, the decrease in GER
| tlfcates of deposit amounted to S9,4SO,OOO
! and in demand notes and fractional curren-
i cy 10 s., ABS. During the same period there
| was an increase of so, lS2, S54 in gold and
| silver certificates. and an increase of S40,-
/ q49, 81 on the cash in the treasury showing
| a net decFease in the public debt during the
| year of Sl09, IO1 ,54i'.
Controller TRENHOLM has returned to
Washington from Cincinnati and Chicago,
reassured as to the financial situation He
says; The banks i'm both of those cities are
] sound and prosperous, and there is no rea-
| son TO feel apprehensive. On the contrary,
/ the break in the wheat deal and the furry in
i Wall street have been in one sense at least
/ beneficial, as they have tended to strengthen
] the financial situation and to break down
Qply those institutions which have not been
conducted in sound and conservative man
| ner.
Seventy-four million dollars were
paid in pensions during the fiscal year
which ended June 30. The number of
Claims allowed during the year was 1880
more than in any year since the war, eX-
cepnng 1861. During the last fiscal year
/ Isl, 500 Claims for pension were received, and
/ ll2,3iO were allowed. There were % 1874
original claims allowed, exceeding last
/ years work by 5,ll1. During the fiscal
! year 2,23f 33l letters were received and
| ,1g2, 052 sent in reply.
Chief Engineer Henry Lee Snyder,
| nf she navy superintendent of the state, war
aud navy department, died suddenly at
Washington, D; c., June 30, of hem
rbarr ~ Ia
years of age, and leaves a widow and
several children. Mr.. Snyder entered the
naval service in 1858, and was a native of
New Jersey. Past Assistant Engineer John
a. Tobin viii temporarily discharge the
duties of superintendent of the department
building.
The accounts of DIR. Levi Bacon, de-
ceased, for many years financial clerk of the
patent Office, Washington, ID. c., show a
shortage of $4,000. II is supposed he
loaned The money to friends, and a good
deal of il as far back as the campaign of
$50, and the sums were never returned to |
him. IL is not thought he applied any pOr-
tiop Of the deficit to his own personal use.
1t is stated al the White House that |
the President has decided TO attend the /
centennial celebration at Clinton, r. Y,
July 18th. but beyond that he has not yet /
completed arrangements for the summer. |
He drives out to ais summer residence at |
Oakville every evening as usual and returns /
10 the White House in the morning.
Secretary Fairchild has appointed /
Edgar Richards, of New York, to be a mi |
croscopist in the internal revenue bureau,
under the provisions of the oleomargerine |
laws, vice Mr.. Wallis resigned. Mr.. Rich |
ards has been employed in the department /
of agriculture for about five years
The Secretary of War has appointed |
James Madison Barrett clerk to Gen. Sher- |
man under the authority conferred by the l
last congress. Mr. Barrett has been en- 1
ployed by Gen. Sherman at his own expense |
as private secretary for some time.
A man named krebs, was sapmred /
at Washington Sunday threatning TO shoot /
President Cleveland claiming be owed him /
six million dollars krebs turned out 10 be i
a lunatic escaped from an Illinois asylum, /
and he has been sent back there.
The decrease of the public debt for
the month Of June is about SIC, Az, Oee, which
makes the total reelection for the fiscal year
ended June 80 about slOs,S oa.09,
The testimony in the contest election
case of Thoebe VS. Carlisle Is in the hands of
the clerk of the House of Representatives
1t is estimated at the Treasury de-
partment that the reduction of the deb. for
June is about sle, 10000
The commission of the land office